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It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. FSO 125P: The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. When the Yugo GV was finally offered for sale in September 1985, (as an 86 model) , initial orders looked promising. Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell are both known as "Final Girls" or "Scream Queens", playing recurring heroines in their respective horror franchise films: Curtis in the "Halloween" franchise and Campbell in the "Scream" franchise--which is loosely based on the "Halloween" mythos. You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). 500 left in running condition? Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. Parts were cheap due to the exchange rate, so there was not the pressure on dealers to deny problems and warranty claims, like Ford and Vauxhall put on their dealers. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. It was so bad we couldnt even get it to start, so we took a few parts off it and then the scrap yard came and took it away. I know another-a lifelong car nut, married to another can nut. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. 3. In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. However, the 67 cu inch motor had plenty of power if you kept it revved, and I never really had a problem keeping up with traffic. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. i doubt they are still there. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. I have known folks like that too. I guess this is so the company could find out how the car is before releasing it to the general public. The space efficiency was great too- it really is tiny- and is NOT a fiat. (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Initially, I had my eyes set on a mid 80s Toyota Celica as the cheapest car I could find. I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. It is the cheapest person that spends the most. Drowning Mona 2000 (PG-13)Strident comedy about the low-IQ denizens of small town Verplanck, New York, where everybody still drives a Yugo (the town was a test market). Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler ), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? I have often wondered why Bricklin didnt try to make a ploy for the tooling to be set up in a higher quality shop. In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. Also i believe that the whole project couldnt last very long because Crvena Zastava never had economic strength to satisfy such demanding market, which requires first class quality, excellent dealer network and a newer and bigger model every year, just to stay in business. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? My little red Yugo was dead. The chief is not rash, but fairly level-headed as he patiently sorts his way through a case that seems to reduce itself to a series of bar fights dimly remembered by drunks. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! (function waitGEO() { Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. From the Subaru 360, to the SV1, to the Yugo, up to Chery, he followed the time-honored scammers credo of taking as much money as he could through charm and charisma, and when the going got tough and his shell-game started coming unraveled, he bailed with his loot and moved on to his next scam. In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. But the reason it hit the Japanese cars harderwas that while many American cars were still frame-on-platform, and had some beef in the underbellyand even the unibody models were over-engineered for rigiditythe Japanese models had pared weight and beef to a minimum. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. 1. But after that i didnt have much trouble with it, ride wasnt too bad for such small car, power was adequate for normal driving (in fact, compared to my fathers beetle with 1200 cc and 34 HP, Yugo with 55 HP and such goodies like 5-speed gearbox and brake booster feels pretty quick). Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. ), it was quite good. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. -Because they have already been through hell. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. The man is Malcom Bricklin. The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. Trivia: Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. Ive heard that by 1989, Malcolm Bricklin was kicked out and Zastava took over importing the cars to the US and made a substantial series of changes/improvements and the cars then came with fuel injection, the GV, GVL, GVC, and GVS and the sportier GVX were combined into one car, the GV Plus fitted with better seats (the fold and slide seats from the GVX), the larger 1.3L 4, the 5spd in a more basic interior and exterior trim package, adding the AC etc and Bosh fuel injection and I hear from Chris Vitale who runs Fiat 500 USA blog who owned a 1991 Yugo with FI until a couple of years or so ago that by then, their warranty claims were very good, but the war took its toll as did the emissions debacle in 1992 brought the cars run in the US to an end. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. Dispose of the rest of the car. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. Even on foot. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. Or maybe not. Its the manifestation of the postwar Japanese industrial culturepredicated on continuous quality improvement; and with the use of statistical controls to produce ever-higher quality items with fewer deviations from specification. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. What a story! Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. Very entertaining. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? In the early 80s many of the domestics suddenly found they could use galvanized steel for body panels, and inner fender liners and other rust proofing methods, (better drains, etc.) I knew about their reputation, but I really needed a set of wheels that wasnt going to set me back a couple of thousand dollars. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. . Youre welcome here anytime ! @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. *shakes tiny fist*. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). Zastava took over the American company. I would love to find one of those. Anyway, you got 2 I think 6.5 door speakers standard and an option for 2 46 oval speakers, mounted in the rear cargo covers side panels for a total of 4 speakers and an optional AC unit that replaced the console stack, just below the heater and the floor and it I think augmented the weak heater in these things. Danny Devito and Bette Midler starred together in "Ruthless People". Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. Dealers there are order-takers. The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. The carpet was very loose fitting and curled up in spots along the edges. And when longtime resident Mona Dearly (BETTE MIDLER) drove her Yugo into the river to her death, no one really seemed to care. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) . there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. The gravity powered it! As a result, in mid-1986, Yugo America began selling cars at a starting price of $3,990 (equivalent to $9,863.56 in 2021) for the entry-level GV ("Good Value") hatchback equipped with the 1,100 cc overhead-cam five-main-bearing engine and four-speed manual transmission. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. If youre familiar with the descent of that once-vaunted company into its current sorry state, appears as if they had too many of this type in management. Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; Especially on economy cars- Yugos often sold to High School girls, who would just turn up the stereo when their failure to add oil led to rod knocking. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. It was a nightmare. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! At least in the old days I could see why the industry that does not want a cheap car to succeed, but whats the point now? I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. Ive got video somewhere. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. } For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. But they didnt have a CLUE. To say that the 360 was unsuited to American driving norms is to wildly overpraise the car. Several actors in this film have ties to the Batman films. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. Well, when someone drowns Mona (Bette Midler), it's almost a cause for celebration in the quiet, upstate New York town of Verplanck, whose one claim to fame - except Mona Dearly - is that it's a hotbed of Yugos. Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. Required fields are marked *. View 9 images Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. The car was a modest success with just under 8000 sold in the first year, but when the 360 was pilloried by Consumer Reports as being unacceptable because of its numerous safety issues, the bottom dropped out of the venture and the last few cars sat on dealers lots for years before they were practically given away. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Do not sell my data How many remains ??? Jeff might have wanted to kill her. I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. Hers are always burned down precisely half an inch, and then we see her lighting a new one from the old one, and realize, yeah, she smokes them only for the first two puffs. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath. Last Update: . The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. Her brake lines had been cut. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. I had two of them. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. I know this is hardly the point of your blog entry, but as someone with a passionate interest in the region, Im compelled to mention that Yugoslavia broke apart mainly due to its heavy debt burden. Serendipity! I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. Visit Dealer Website. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. if (!readyGEO) { There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. As for the first gen Civics and to a lesser extent, the second gen Civics, I would guess where we dont have rust to deal with, it was 30+ years and many accrued miles that ultimately were their demise, ie, 200K-300K+ and a head gasket finally blows are what killed them off eventually if not an accident or some other mechanical failure due to age/mileage. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. They had other third-world markets in mind. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) But who? They obviously do not run. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. } Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Americans are a funny lot.I am not sure what $4000 in 2016 money equates to but you can these days get plenty on the used car lot if you look carefully for roughly the same money as anything in the light car class or it can be can be a car you dreamed about when it was new but couldnt afford at the time.We Australians never saw the Yugo but $12,000 before you factor in things like automatics and on roads plus good condition gets you better than most of these cars from foreign lands and brands which dont exist anymore.I suppose the modern day equivalent of this would be something like a Suzuki Celerio or a Mitsubishi Mirage in my part of the world new,used equivalent buying gets you a three year old Corolla or Pulsar or one size smaller a well kept Yaris or Mazda 2. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. Yugos are cars. 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